Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 14:02:08 04/22/00
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On April 22, 2000 at 11:44:54, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On April 22, 2000 at 09:06:09, Michael Cummings wrote: > >>On April 22, 2000 at 08:11:36, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On April 21, 2000 at 21:01:17, Michael Cummings wrote: >> >> >>>>I have not paid much notice to these games, but which book did you think was the >>>>strongest. CM6000.OBK is the strongest, the mentor.OBK or whatever is called is >>>>exactly the same, but it has a few notes that the help and the tutorial uses. So >>>>I have seen some people say the mentor is stronger than CM6000.OBK, thats funny >>>>and strange when it is the same book. >>>> >>>>I just hope you have used satisfactory settings, do not use any more than 2 meg >>>>hash for these short games, otherwise this will affect the games if they are too >>>>big. >>>> >>>>When you play about 200 more games, then I will look more closely at your >>>>results, I have played enough games battling chessmaster against chessmaster >>>>personalities to know 50 games means very little. Cause when you play those 50 >>>>games again, the result can vary dramatically. >>>> >>>>You want to know another result that is also funny, over 20 20minutes games, the >>>>Karpov personality beat the Chessmaster by winning 14 games ????? >>> >>>I do not care much for the original Chessmaster personality, since it lost very >>>bad to my CMQueen+ personality setting Using the CM6000.OBK book, long before I >>>started to post my finding on this message board, therefore, only then knowing >>>that I discover this strong setting I Started to switch from one book to another >>>just to find out that the original CM6000.OBK (default book) is indeed the >>>strongest. >>> >>>PS: If you still remember how to set the CMQueen+ setting, Please do me a favor >>>and pit it against the Karpov personality, recommend to use a time setting of a >>>minimum of 1 hr/per side, pit it as many times as you are satisfied or in the >>>case when one setting is winning by a large margin, then it becomes useless to >>>continue playing beyong 50 games. >> >>When you play personalities to see which is stronger, you should do it this way, >>otherwise your results can vary greatly, and most of the time, especially a >>short time settings, up to 15% of the games could be doubles of games previously >>played. >> >>So if you were playing your CMQ+ vs CM6000, have CM6K play white, finish the >>game, then have your CMQ+ play white from the end of the opening CM6K played in >>the previous game. >> >>Testing any other way is not acceptable (to me that is). My way your results >>reflect purely on your personality settings and nothing else. > >Your way of testing seems very logical to me, therefore, I will provide you with >the CMQueen+ setting and I hope that you honestly test it against Karpov >personality or any of your choice. In case you never read the setting for CMQ+ >here is the setting. > >Personality CMQueen+ > >Opening Book CM6000 > > >Style Positional Material > >AD 5 M/P -5 Ow Q 9.9 (Please do not change these >SOP 100 COC 105 Op Q 9.7 controversial value for the > Queens or rooks) >R 0 M 120 Ow R 5.0 >MSD 20 KS 100 Op R 4.9 > >SS 8 PP 110 Ow B 3.2 >COD 1.0 PW 100 Op B 3.2 > >TD = ON Ow K 3.1 >DT = ON Op K 3.1 > > Ow P 1.0 > Op P 1.0 The typographical error was made under the M/P of the positional column, it should have been M/P -5 instead of M/P 5, please correct the setting if you are testing it.
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